Monsignor William Lynn, who supervised priests as secretary for clergy from 1992 through 2004. Lynn is the first U.S. church official charged for his administrative role in the sex abuse crisis.

He is on trial with the Rev. James Brennan, who is charged with the attempted rape of a 14-year-old boy in 1996. Both men entered not guilty pleas before the jury Monday.

Prosecutors say the 61-year-old Lynn transferred priests to new parishes when a problem arose or told parishioners that their priest was taking a "health leave" when he was going for therapy or to a "safe" assignment at an old-age home. Before long, problem priests were back in parish work, with unsupervised access to children.

Defense lawyers plan to argue that the accusers are out for money or hope to explain away their troubled lives. Both accusers have criminal records and a history of drug addiction.

Attack the victims. Sick, defense. Assistant District Attorney Jacqueline Coelho should be commended since no one else seems to want to prosecute the cover-up artists. If you notice, it's a she not a man. Says something, doesn't it?

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Phoenix

A guy opens the front door and sees a snail on his doorstep. He picks up the snail and throws it across the street in a neighbor's yard. A year later, the guy opens the front door and the same snail is on his doorstep. The snail says, "What the f*ck was that about?"

Thanks God for that prosecution!"Defense lawyers plan to argue that the accusers are out for money or hope to explain away their troubled lives. Both accusers have criminal records and a history of drug addiction."This sentence taken from article has piss*d me off among others...There is no such explanation that could justify abuse of kids!

Ive been closely following the clergy sex abuse trial in Philadelphia. This week a witness named a bishop from West Virginia, Bishop Michael Bransfield. So, this quote from the story should tell it all.... "Bransfield, a Philadelphia native who heads the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, responded with a staunch denial, calling the trial "a circus" and accusing prosecutors of irresponsibly smearing his name "to bolster their persecution of the church."

Not so surprisingly, Bransfield was out of the US at this time, meetings at the Vatican, how convenient!!! Seems a West Virginia judge was holding up an order for the bishop's assistant to testify at this trial.

The hardest part for me in reading about this is how it reminds me of how I was a "fair haired boy" myself to a priest back in my early teens. I was so young and naive, I didnt know what was going on.

When I read the witnesses statements saying how the priests were basically bragging to one another about their sexual conquests, I just shows how they thought they were entitled to treat innocent boys as sex toys. Wind em up, play with them, wind em up again.the link....Bishop Bransfield named in clergy sex abuse trial

Monsignor William Lynn, who supervised priests as secretary for clergy from 1992 through 2004. Lynn is the first U.S. church official charged for his administrative role in the sex abuse crisis.

He is on trial with the Rev. James Brennan, who is charged with the attempted rape of a 14-year-old boy in 1996. Both men entered not guilty pleas before the jury Monday.

Prosecutors say the 61-year-old Lynn transferred priests to new parishes when a problem arose or told parishioners that their priest was taking a "health leave" when he was going for therapy or to a "safe" assignment at an old-age home. Before long, problem priests were back in parish work, with unsupervised access to children.

Defense lawyers plan to argue that the accusers are out for money or hope to explain away their troubled lives. Both accusers have criminal records and a history of drug addiction.

Attack the victims. Sick, defense. Assistant District Attorney Jacqueline Coelho should be commended since no one else seems to want to prosecute the cover-up artists. If you notice, it's a she not a man. Says something, doesn't it?

I wish they would do something like this in the boy scout organization.

Even if they get out of it, a prosecutor did her job and prosecuted them. That's a first! A great beginning. There are more to throw in jail.

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Phoenix

A guy opens the front door and sees a snail on his doorstep. He picks up the snail and throws it across the street in a neighbor's yard. A year later, the guy opens the front door and the same snail is on his doorstep. The snail says, "What the f*ck was that about?"

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